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RUSH: I was thinking last night, the shallowness and the lack of substance in this presidential campaign. It really hit me last night when I got home and I was thinking about the show yesterday — especially the first hour and a half of it — totally devoted to this insane, ludicrous proposition that properly inflated tires is a central, central, central aspect of an energy policy. I think, ‘Is this the best we can do?\u2019 Is this the best we can do? There\u2019s another story from the Associated Press today that sort of dovetails with the whole notion here that we\u2019ve just got a plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roller presidential campaign going on. Now listen to this: <\/p>\n

‘John McCain\u2019s favorite television commander in chief plays the first black US president. Just the role Democrat Barack Obama is looking to fill. ‘You know, I hope that I and all Americans can be colorblind about any president,\u2019 [McCain] said when asked about the similarities between Obama and President Palmer of Fox\u2019s \u201924.” So we have a presidential candidate (that means, for those of you in Rio Linda, we have a guy running for the office of president of the United States) comparing Obama to a fictional character on a television show, \u201924,\u2019 saying I hope we can all be colorblind. McCain ‘said he likes Palmer,\u2019 who is a fictitious character played by the actor Dennis Haysbert — who, by the way, is a nut. Haysbert thinks that Bush knew that the planes were flying into the towers. He might think Bush did it on purpose himself. <\/p>\n

Haysbert is a nice guy. I ran into him in a couple of golf tournaments. He\u2019s way out there. He\u2019s laughably way out there, but he\u2019s an actor, and he\u2019s never been president, and he\u2019s never run for president. McCain is saying that he likes ‘President Palmer,\u2019 and there\u2019s never been a President Palmer. He ‘likes Palmer because he ‘makes tough decisions, he takes charge, he\u2019s ready to sacrifice his interest on behalf of the interest of the country.” We are talking about an actor! We\u2019re talking about an actor that\u2019s never been president. We\u2019re talking about script writers who put words in an actor\u2019s mouth. Ahem. I\u2019m practicing restraint here again, ladies and gentlemen. You know, McCain did a set visit to the show \u201924.\u2019 He did a little cameo role in it a couple years ago. I wonder if he met Haysbert. <\/p>\n

I wonder if he went up to ‘President Palmer\u2019 and said, ‘You know, I really admire the way you handled that crisis in episode six.\u2019 (laughing) ‘What was it like? Anything you can share with me about how tough it was?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yeah, well, Senator, we didn\u2019t get it right \u2019til the tenth take, but we finally got it down.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘I know. I saw. I saw the final result. It was masterful, masterful. Very sad about what happened to your wife in that series, your wife turned on you. How did you deal with that?\u2019<\/p>\n

Moving on… ‘In separate interviews with Entertainment Weekly, McCain, and Obama, discussed their pop culture picks, films that choked them up as kids and who handles the remote control at their homes. The interviews appear in the issue that hits newsstands Friday. Obama says he has ‘some clout\u2019 with the remote when he\u2019s at home with his wife, Michelle, and their two young daughters. ‘I\u2019m not home a lot, so Michelle is usually willing to give it up,\u2019 [Obama] said. ‘The only time I grab for the remote is when a game is on.” I\u2019m not home a lot? A guy with a wife… (interruption) His wife is one of the… (interruption) Well, a wife is willing to give it up, can be any…? (interruption) I think he\u2019s talking about the remote here, Snerdley. He\u2019s not talking… Getting your mind out of the gutter for five seconds would be helpful. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking about the Democrat presidential candidate and the remote control habits inside the family domicile. Everybody knows the women control the remote in every house, \u2019cause they hate it when the guys channel surf. They don\u2019t like channel surfing. They want to pick one thing and stick with it, even through the commercials. Anyway, Barack Obama ‘said his television is usually tuned to HGTV, the home and garden cable network, ‘and I suffer that silently.” Okay, so you got the Home and Garden Network on, in the Obama household. No wonder he\u2019s not there much, but, hey, Barack? Do you have another TV so you can go to the other TV when the game is on, rather than somebody sit there with a pick and a hoe and plot some grass? <\/p>\n

‘McCain said he and his wife, Cindy, compete for command of the [remote control]. ‘Sometimes I win the arm wrestling contest, but foolishly she continues to try to assert her control over the remote,\u2019 McCain said. ‘This is a battle that will continue for a long time.\u2019 … Both candidates\u2019 spouses watch ‘American Idol.” So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. This is the kind of thing I mean. We get the story about who watches what, the remote control, who has control over the remote control, and this kind of thing. Can we do any better? It\u2019s not like we\u2019re in an era here of peace, where we\u2019re suffering no threats, where nobody has any grievances against us. It\u2019s not as though we live in a time where liberals have been defeated and can no longer destroy the America we know and love. <\/p>\n

I mean, all these things are happening, and we? We get treated to guys that know more than God about the weather, that know more about health care than the people in that business — and the New York Times? The New York Times is writing editorials on energy policy and condemning Big Oil for making profits, when in fact the New York Times is demonstrating it cannot make a profit, it cannot run its business profitably, and how dare they tell anybody else how to do it? But they are liberals, and even though they\u2019ve never done any of the things that they claim need to be done, they say they have all of the answers. And this reduces itself to arguments over who gets the remote control in the house and tire gauges to keep your tires inflated so we don\u2019t have to drill for oil! We\u2019ve got to be able to do better than this. We just have to. And then, today I wake up and I find out that Obama is out there bashing our country to a seven-year-old little girl at a town meeting! We have to be able to do better than this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Look, it\u2019s come down to this. We did our A-B, side-by-side comparison: Paris Hilton discussing her economic energy plan versus Laura Tyson on Obama\u2019s staff discussing his plan. When Paris Hilton, an empty vessel into whom words were poured — she memorized them, though — when Paris Hilton sounds smarter than the Obama advisor on energy, then you know we have succeeded in defining dumbness down. It\u2019s just happened. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m having this dream, ladies and gentlemen. McCain out doing the set visit at \u201924\u2019 talking to President Palmer, portrayed by actor Dennis Haysbert. And, by the way, it\u2019s gone to Haysbert\u2019s head, too. He thinks he set the stage for the Obama presidency. He said that a number of weeks ago. He did. It\u2019s all gone to these guys\u2019 heads. So McCain is talking to President Haysbert, fictional character. (doing McCain impression) ‘You gotta tell me, how did you handle that crisis in episode six?\u2019 And Haysbert says, ‘I called in Jack Bauer, he didn\u2019t have any McCain amendments to worry about, he just went out and got the bad guys, and we won.\u2019 We can dream. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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